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  • I Like Getting Mail

    I got a letter from DePaul saying I made Dean's List for spring quarter. I know I've made fun of the dean's list letter in the past, but this is the first time I've made dean's list since winter quarter 2007 (and when I …

  • Pre-Op and Pre-Pentecost

    I just had a pre-op visit that totally sucked. Mostly because of the blood draw, in which it took seven tries, despite the fact that I was well hydrated. Blood was drawn to test my thyroid, due to the fact that I have n…

  • Four google searches today arrived here looking for a definition of yontif and gut yontif. Yontif is yiddish for Yom Tov or Good Day, or more practically Holiday. Gut is good. In the Jewish calendar, the following are yo…

  • Friday night services

    On Friday night I went to mitziut services. There was a part where somebody wanted us to stand in a circle and hold hands. I was standing kind of behind the circle, and she asked me if I wanted to be in the circle. I sai…

  • 2002 Young Zionist Trip to DC- Memories

    During spring break of 2002, six years ago, I went on a road trip to Washington DC with the young zionists and their chaperones. We were going to a rally in front of the white house, where a quarter million people gather…

  • Tax Day and the Model Seder

    I'm enrolled in a class about slavery. It's not specifically about American slavery; it's about slavery in a historical and religious context. We've spent the last two weeks trying to figure out just how to define slaver…

  • More Stress

    On Shabbes I heard a sound like it was raining in doors. Went and got my father, who concluded that the floor above me must have had a leak. I don't know what he told my mother. I brought it to her attention in the morni…

  • Lennon; Bokser; Death; Dogs

    Yesterday it came to my attention that the song Imagine is by John Lennon. I guess I hadn't realized that the Beatles played such political and anti-religious music. I first heard the song Imagine at an interfaith gather…

  • Politics around Difference

    When I talk to liberals for very long, I get really agitated and feel very conservative. When I talk to conservatives, I get upset and feel liberal. ARGH. On Tuesday, DePaul had a come out conservative thingy. I got ther…

  • donate

    Today I received an email from Illinois' organ donation campaign. It contained a story about a guy who got a pancreas kidney transplant. I wrote about it on my diabetes blog. Within hours, I had a comment from the campai…

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